Pros react to the Brock Lesnar vs. Mark Hunt fight announcement

Earlier today on ESPN’s SportsCenter former UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar announced that he would be returning to the octagon to fight Mark Hunt at UFC 200 on July 9 in Las Vegas.

Lesnar has not competed in mixed martial arts since his 2011 TKO loss to Alistair Overeem at UFC 141. The former champions last win came via submission against Shane Carwin at UFC 116 in 2010.

Meanwhile, Mark Hunt is coming off back-to-back first-round knockout victories over Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva and Frank Mir respectively.

Here is how the pros reacted to the news of “The Beast” fighting “The Super Samoan” at UFC 200:

https://twitter.com/Cody_Nolove/status/739824915537223680
https://twitter.com/JRsBBQ/status/739828254274551809
https://twitter.com/EliasTheodorou/status/739830643945787392
https://twitter.com/AlanJouban/status/739832883771281408
https://twitter.com/Thebeast_ufc/status/739833558135627777
https://twitter.com/Jon_Anik/status/739828031582134272
https://twitter.com/RothwellFighter/status/739836467934027776
https://twitter.com/LaurenMurphyMMA/status/739829431586279426
https://twitter.com/John_Kavanagh/status/739847008303861761
https://twitter.com/MaguireTheOne/status/739832954097172480
https://twitter.com/danthehangman/status/739830280500989953
https://twitter.com/WWE/status/739840229176184832
https://twitter.com/ufc/status/739837119984586752

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